Vera Lutter
Vera Lutter, born in 1960 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, lives and works in New York. She is best known for her large-format photographs of industrial and architectural landmarks. Lutter studied sculpture in Munich and photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Since the beginning of her career, she has worked with the technique of the camera obscura, which she uses to create her remarkable long-exposure images.
Vera Lutter Editions
Venice
2009
From Forty Are Better Than One
6-part leporello, digital pigment print (Ditone) on 260 g Hahnemühle Baryta paper, 32 x 150 cm (12½ x 59 in). Edition: 75, signed and numbered.
With this edition – a photograph of Venice taken with a camera obscura – Vera Lutter captures the city’s iconic scenery in a transformed way. Lutter’s depiction of the Grand Canal and Venetian architecture is alienated through the inversion of black and white, lending the familiar cityscape an almost ghostly quality. The water in particular, due to the long exposure times, appears shimmering and ephemeral – like a fleeting reflection of time.
EUR 1,800
Linger On
2008
From Wall Works
Three panels of plexiglass with digital printing to be mounted in a space free-hanging. Size according to the space and the artist's instructions. Co-published with Carolina Nitsch, New York. Limited to 8 installations, with a signed and numbered certificate.
Vera Lutter’s edition Linger On, part of the Wall Work series, features a large-format black-and-white photograph of a zeppelin, printed on Plexiglas. The image is suspended in the space using steel cables stretched between floor and ceiling, giving it the appearance of a transparent partition. The monumental zeppelin creates a powerful presence through its scale and spatial positioning, engaging with the architecture of the room and drawing the viewer into a dialogue between space and image.
